Introduction
The pure elementary substance (Bromine). Preparation. Tincture, and dilutions with distilled water.
Mind
He becomes averse to his business; it seems at though he must relinquish it. Lively mood in a hypochondriac. Lively disposition. Apathy, weakness. Taciturn. Disconcerted, with increased sensation of warmth in the head.
In the evening some apprehensiveness, oppression of the heart and some headache. No action on the pulse or heart, rather upon respiration (after he had taken the drug for sixteen days increasing to fourteen drops; having taken in all 132 drops). In the evening when alone it seems as though he was obliged to look about him, and would somewhere see an apparition (from the 3d). He is unusually out of humor for five days (from the 3d).
Fretfulness. Quarrelsomeness. Consciousness is not disturbed. Desire for mental labor. Great activity in business. Indisposition for mental work. Disinclined to read. The previous desire to read disappears. The thoughts are difficult to fix upon any object; the condition of the patient yesterday was difficult to call to mind (after six hours). Loss of ideas. Lack of ideas. Very great forgetfulness.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head. Confusion of the head as if a hoop were about it the whole day, causing vertigo. Confusion in the head whole day (after the fourth dose). Confusion of the head, especially in the forehead; pressure on the brows and root of the nose, frequently affecting a small place, above the eyes alternately in one or the other side. Confusion of the head, with heaviness (half an hour). Incipient vertigo. Commencing vertigo (first day). Vertigo, especially at evening on lying down, with confusion of the head. Vertigo, worse in damp weather. Vertigo, especially if crossing a little running water. Vertigo as soon as he steps the foot over water; the foot is drawn involuntarily in the direction of the stream. (*In a strong young man who was not otherwise nervous, C. Hg.*) Vertigo, with nausea (twelve minutes after 8 drops). Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward (second day), (from the 6th).
Vertigo, with a feeling as if one would fall to the ground, with flushes of heat (after one and a half hours).
Vertigo, with bleeding at the nose an subsequent headache (from the fumes).
A slight vertigo, with nausea, continued inclination to vomit, without, however, actual vomiting, six minutes after 5 drops. Dizziness in the head (after half an hour).
Dizziness in the head (second day).
General Sensations
Headache as a consequent symptom. Violent headache throughout the whole head for two hours, 3 to 4 P.M. (third day), (from first). Dizzy headache in the morning on waking, with itching over the whole body, especially on the chest and between the shoulders. Toward evening in rather damp weather pains in he bones of the head, mostly in the forehead and occiput (second day). A sensation deep in the brain soon after dinner (that was eaten with little appetite), as if apoplexy were imminent; a sensation as if he would lose his senses and have vertigo, equally severe when walking or sitting, lasting a quarter of an hour. Slight headache, with here and there vertigo. Headache, especially in the forehead, alternating with pain in the small of the back. Headache and severe stitches in the lung if he attempts to breathe deeply; he is obliged to cough frequently; the pulse is full and hard, in the beginning somewhat slow, afterwards from 80 to 85 (several hours after twenty to thirty drops). Bursting pain in the head, more on the left side (from fifth). Pressive pain over the whole head immediately. Dull pressive headache. Forehead. He must keep the forehead wrinkled. Confusion in the forehead. Heaviness in the forehead. Pain at times in the frontal bones. Pain in the frontal bone in the evening, with stitches in the larynx. Headache in the forehead for several days. Pain in the forehead after dinner (second day). Stupefied headache in the forehead worse during rest, disappearing during riding. Pain and pressure in the forehead (soon). Pain in the forehead, with pressure; sense of heaviness and increased warmth. The pain over the left eye extends into the forehead, with a burning sensation and an oppressive benumbing pain. Boring in the left side of the frontal bone. Severe boring in the left side of the frontal bone. Pressure in the left frontal bone, then in the right. Pressure in the frontal bone with confusion in the forehead. Long-continued pressure in the frontal bones, in the room, not in the open air (half an hour). Pressure in the forehead. Pressure in the right frontal eminence. Pressure in the forehead above the eyes. Pressure in the forehead, with heaviness in the head, with disinclination to think. Pressive pain in the forehead. Pressive pain in the forehead (second day). Pressive pain in the forehead several times, soon disappearing. Dull pressive pain in the forehead. A hot pressive headache in the forehead extending inward; throbbing and extending to the maxillary bone, at 9 A.M. Pressive headache, as if digging over the eyes. Pressive pain in the forehead, deep in the eyes, with sensitiveness of the eyes when reading (fourth day). Dull pressive headache in the forehead in the morning, from which the eyes become affected (thirteenth day) after repeated doses. Pain in the forehead, as if everything would press outward, in the forenoon. Slight pressive pain in the forehead, especially on coughing. Tearing in the frontal bones. Temples, etc. Rather severe pressure in the bone in the left temple (after three hours). Painful pressure in the left temple, together with a constant dizzy feeling in the head. Pressure on the vertex. Left-sided headache. Pain on the left side of the head (from 5th). Pain in the left side of the head, which extends to the left eye (from the 3d). Headache from the left ear to the left temple, aggravated by stooping. Slight drawing in the left side of the head (from the 8th). Pressure in the right anterior lobe of the bran and in the right side of the nasal bone (first day). Tearing in the right side of the cranial bones. Stitching pain through the right side of the head (from the 3d). Headache after drinking milk, like a severe throbbing, and a hard pulse in the left side; relieved if he lies upon the right side with his arms over his head. Trickling-crawling in the left half of the head and on the left cheek (afternoon of second day). Headache; heaviness in the occiput, in the heat of the sun; goes away in the shade (from the 1st). Heat in the occiput. Crawling beneath the skin of the occiput.
Eyes
Eye in General. Clonic spasms in the muscles of the eyes, in the face, and in the limbs. (*Compare twitchings in the face and hands with violent burning and scraping in the throat, etc. All the convulsions noticed in animals are only fatal symptoms and without any value (C. Hg.).*) Severe inflammation of the eyes. The right eye becomes inflamed and dim, with lachrymation. Pain over the right eye with photophobia (after two an a half hours). Slight pain, frequently in and above the right eye, with some inflammation of the conjunctiva (first day), (from 1st). Distressing burning in the eyes, with spasmodic closing of the orbicularis and increased lachrymation; confusion of the head, with severe pressure upon the chest, and cough (from inhaling the vapor). Paroxysmal pressive pain in the eyes and root of the nose, as if extending in the eyes and in the chest. Stitches through the left eye. External Parts. Dull, pressing, stupefied pain (a dead pain) over the left eye. Sticking sensation about the orbits. Trickling in the left arcus superciliaris (afternoon of second). The eyes will close, as if sleepy. The lids are very heavy; he can only open and keep them open with great difficulty, with coldness of the lids (from the 3d). Stitches in the lids of the left eye when reading (second day). (*Throbbing stitches in the left eye upper lid, extending to the brow, the forehead, and left temple; increased by external pressure, motion, and stooping; relieved by rest; a pain which unfits him for every work*). (*This symptom occured in a young watchmaker, who had suffered every two or three weeks for several years; it generally continued three or four days. A very marked aggravation after Bromine X, improvement in one hour and no return after seven weeks. Lippe.*) Biting in the margins of the lids (one hour). Cutting in the right inner canthus; the next day the same symptom in the left inner canthus. Stitches in the canthi. Stitches in the right inner canthus. Itching above the right external canthus, relieved by scratching (from 8th). Distended tortuous vessels in the conjunctiva bulbi of both eyes, with stitches in the lids. Ocular conjunctiva dull and wrinkled. Biting in the conjunctiva palp. Increased lachrymation (from the vapor). Lachrymation of the right eye (from 5th), etc. Pupils and Vision. Pupils normal. A kind of vanishing of slight when sitting and reading in the evening, as if a wind before the eyes took away the power of sight (from the vapor). Daylight is somewhat sensitive to the eyes. Sensitiveness of the eyes to bright light. Some photophobia. Photophobia, with pressure on moving the eyes. A gray point before the right eye moving up and down with he movement of the eye, on looking into the distance and also near to as though all kinds of things jumped up on the ground before her. Illusions of fantasy; it seems to him as though strange persons were looking over his shoulder (from the 30th). (*The provers of the last two symptoms were in different places, proved at very different times, and did not know one another’s symptoms C.Hg.*).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.